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In Search of The European Public Sphere: Between Normative Overstretch and Empirical Disenchantment
Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2008
which should be used to assess the legitimacy of European integration. In descriptive terms, the European public sphere is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040335
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How the enlargement challenges the institutions - or the existence - of the European Economic Area
Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2005
could make the legitimacy and the fulfillment of the principal aims of the EEA more difficult. First, I argue that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040421
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Reflexive Integration in Europe
Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2004
Integration may occur through coercion and intergovernmental bargaining - through blackmail, tradition, functional adaptation, copying, diffusion or exit - but it may also occur through reflexive reason-giving and entrenched commitments. The usefulness of such an approach to transnational and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040453
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Contesting EU Legitimacy
Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - ARENA - 2010
This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734487
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Contesting EU Legitimacy
Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - ARENA - 2010
This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734499
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Denouncing European Integration. Euroscepticism as reactive identity formation
Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Wilde, Pieter de - ARENA - 2009
The spreading phenomenon of Euroscepticism relates to particular discursive formations within the battlefield of collective identities that is opened by European integration. This paper first aims to highlight the reactionary nature of Euroscepticism. Secondly, it argues for understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611107